Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the 2011 Volunteer Management for Nonprofits Conference here in New York. It was a shared session, where I presented some basic information to (mostly) organizations who haven’t yet tried out Twitter, focusing on using the platform in general as well as ways to activate and engage a community; and Katherine from Baby Buggy shared her own case study of building the @loverecycled community on Twitter and helping turn those interactions into resources to serve families around the country. I’ve presented about Twitter before, as well, so in addition to sharing some notes and resources, and my slides, from the presentation on Friday, I want to also round up other Twitter-related posts and links here.
Presentation Slides
Here are my slides from the VMNC:
Twitter Basics for Engaging Volunteers
And here are slides from a previous presentation:
Twitter Resources
There are so many resources out there that hopefully this list will help filter and curate for you!
Examples
- $100,000 in 3 Days: Interview about #TeamAutism
- Social media in disaster response
- National Theatre screws up, what we can learn from mistakes
- Journalists using social media in Egypt
- American Red Cross Twitter Mistakes and Fundraising
- Atlanta Councilman chooses Twitter
- Trimet misses the bus on social media
Resources
- Twitter for fundraising
- Twitter (from We Are Media)
- Twitter’s 5-year numbers
- Pew research on Twitter users
- Twitter API wiki
Blog Posts
- Twitter Lists for Nonprofits
- Twitter for Nonprofits Presentation
- Using Twitter for a Global Conversation
- What’s the cost of “following” on Twitter?
- How can nonprofits use Twitter?
- How to make quality content on Twitter
- Good rules for using Twitter
- Nonprofit advantage for future of Twitter and Search
- Twitter at use for Tu Diabetes community
Please add your favorite blog posts or examples to the list, too!